Blotting-pad.



No- 827,832 PATENTED AUG. '7, 19 06.

' J. VEI

BLOTTINGr APPLICATION FILED JAN.8,1906\ wifnee: a 1729671602? M Jobef Veirir UNI-TED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEF VEIT, or NEW YORK, N. Y. I

BLOTTING-PAD.

No. 827,832. Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed Tannery 8, 1906. Serial No. 295,195.

To all whom it may concern: I lacquer, or other similar material.

Be it known that I, JosEF VEIT, a citizen lay no claim to such an article, but confine my of the United States, residing at in e county of New York and State of New vided with a coating that is baked Yorl kiln. uch Im rovements in Blotting-Pads, of which the fol owing is a specification.

Patented Aug. 7, 1906.

This invention relates to the manufacture absorbent material; and it has lar reference to the production of a b pad for desk use.

he object is to construct an article which will act as an absorbent of ink and which can also be used as a paper-weight, all'of which will now be set forth in detail.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a pers ective I view of my improved absorbent pa Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section on line 2 of ig. 3, Fig. 3 is an end View of the pad.

le, since the coating thus formed serves to articu- I preserve the body of the pad from injury, otting- I whereas a paint or lacquer has no such value l in products of this kind.

en the cake is removed from the glazingoven, the glazed surface on the under ortion of sameis removed in any suitable manner, thus exposing an unglazed clay surface, as at 8, which then serves admirably for ab-' sorbing all superfluous ink from newly-written manuscript, and, unlike blotting-paper, will require no renewal. The under or contact I prefer to construct the ad of china-clay, surface may be freshened and undue accumua umina, and silica, water ld eing added to the lations of ink removed therefrom by rubbing mass and the whole reduced to a paste. then mold the same into the proper shape, I What claim as new iss a new article of manufacture, a blottingpad ofclay, or other suitable material, capable of being baked, having face curved and unglazed, and all its other surfaces covered by a baked In testimony whereof I affiX my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOSEF VEIT.

having on its upper surface a han- The form thus produced is baked a suitable period, after which it is dipped for the purpose of providing a glazed surface 7, and then baked, as is usual with products of this class.

I am aware it is not new to make a pad of Witnesses: this character of clay or like material and WM. H. EASTER, then coat the same with paint, varnish, J. S. Z

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product to an article of this kind which is pro- 

